Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 41

I wanted them to come over to Sweden, but the old man was not inclined to take my advice.

Who acts: I, boys · What happens: want, come over, not incline, take · To what, where: boys, Sweden, old man, advice

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, boys), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 come	mark
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
6	over	over	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Sweden	case
8	Sweden	Sweden	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 inclined	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 inclined	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 inclined	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 inclined	aux:pass
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 inclined	advmod
16	inclined	incline	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wanted	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 take	mark
18	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 inclined	xcomp
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 advice	nmod:poss
20	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	past	I	boys = boy			tree rules
2	come over not said to happen	to-infinitive	boys = boy not said here		Sweden	over property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sweden=Initial_Location
3	not incline	past · passive		the old man			tree rules
4	take	to-infinitive		my advice			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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